9900:Resurgence of popularity!
I'm thinking I just have tolearn to keep the lower fingers closer together and that might help a lot.
9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
idssteve Typical "see thru" Red dot sights are fast & fun & don't occlude forward view. Armson OEG, tho, is occluded so it can't be seen thru. All you see with right eye is a red dot with black all around it. Target is acquired with left eye and mind superimposes dot onto target... Definitely a "both eyes open" configuration. BUT, only one eye is acquiring forward view. Fast & fun against paper but too limited view of targets that might bite, scratch or shoot back, imo. Lol. No batteries needed tho, thanks to tritium reticle. Definitely exercises unique portions of brain. I brought it up because I sensed similar "brain strain" during my 9 months on touch.
Ever try iPhone while laying down?
Ok I looked up that Armson OEG and I have never seen anything like that before. At first I thought maybe you meant a projected red dot like a laser but it is not a red dot in that regard. I know about the Trijicon the military uses and how it does not need batteries, etc. But the fact you need both eyes open for that to function is news to me.
When you said "occlude foreword" I thought you were referring to some sort of telescopic system used to magnify but this does not look like the case either. I think you were referring to a blockage of the site picture. This is still puzzling and I would have to do for the reading on that type of technology. I did however try to read and learn as much as I could on the holographic red dot technology.
I made a video in 2013 showing the view through my holographic red dot (with my white 9780) and I would like to email it to you so you can see what mine is about, so let me know if that is possible. It is actually a very good review of the new toy I got haha, 8 minutes long and I also showed something very strange that happened the day before with faulty ammo. It probably wouldn't be good to post it here, although I wish I could.
No as for how I hold the iPhone laying down I noticed something very interesting. My right forefinger is straight up along side the iPhone and my pinky finger is still under the iPhone cradling and supporting the weight of it but since the weight is right over my face, the second finger beside my pinky seems to be the one fighting gravity to keep it from falling into my nose. The 9900 as you say is much shorter and stubbier and I can wrap my forefinger right around the top but that certainly is not the case with the long thin iPhone. But this is holding it one-handed and I generally never like to type one-handed, I just feel like it slows me down, I am much faster with two thumbs so when I hold with two hands and both of my fore fingers are straight up in the air supporting the sides of the device up high and usually only my right pinky finger is solely supporting the weight of the device. I'll take a picture later when I switch to my BlackBerry.
9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
xanadome I've been using iPhones since it's inception, but I had a chance encounter with a Blackberry, and found its usefulness. since then (tail end of 9780), 9900 is my daily driver. At the time, I never thought I would use any other phones, let alone "Blackberry" of all brands :-).
Anyway, I am one of those people who are comfortable with and actually faster and more accurate with touch screen typing. I am sure many people swear by PKB, and I believe it. In my case, it is strictly a matter of getting used to VKB. I am faster skating on VKB because I have a sort of muscle memory on the slab just like you guys have on PKB. I am actually try to practice PKB more, so that I do not have to rely on my iPhone. I watched a YouTube wherein a young lady was magically fast on touch screen typing. Even though it was a special case, theoretically, the touch typing, if and when you mastered it, eliminates the "push" motion that will probably help in fast typing "once you become proficient" in it. But my appreciation of PKB is about keyboard shortcuts and a kind of "programmable" nature of the PKB. To call up apps or dig deeper into function.menu system, you can't beat the 9900's keyboard and tool belt. You do not have to search apps, touch and touch here and there like on touch screen phones in order to get to what you want. I really love it. 9900's menu system is an old school hierarchical system, but come to think of it, it is packing a lot of functions in it. iPhone's 3D touch is nowhere near 9900 menu system in which decades of user experiences are packed in. Too bad, BB threw it away in BB10 in their futile effort to catch up and emulate iPhones and Androids.
9900 alone is certainly an inadequate device (browser, truncation and all that) but most people here uses another phone to complement it, the best of both worlds. So, the usual criticism coming from some other brigades do not bother me a bit.
By the way, I lurk this forum every single day, and always learn some thing. When I was recently lurking on one of the heresy sites, I bumped into Ralph, who sent me back here again :-)
I ran into someone in the imore forum, was that you? Either way good to hear from ya!
You definately have more mad skills than me.
I have NEVER got used to the iphone and in fact my friend was here tonite and I had to respond to something in a messenger and because I was distracted doing other things, I could not give the typing my FULL attention and it took me THREE attempts to get my short message right! I remember saying "now if only I had this app on my BLackberry!"
I have used iphone since Feb. 2014 and I have to say that it has been a great experience EXCEPT the typing frustration and that is a very important part of any smartphone. If I didn't need some of the apps I use to messege, sell stuff, blog and photo edit I would throw the iphone against the wall and feel a lot better ;) So I use both but I do not like carrying 2 devices, but I have on occasion.
For the first time last week I tried a custom keyboard app that was recommended for the iphone from Apple itself and another tech site I read, the app is called TouchPal and you can select different KB's with colours, clicky sounds etc and even with bigger keys I still could not get used to it. It's like I hit my limit for what I can do on a VKB and I have never been happy about that aspect of it.
I am never getting rid of the 9900 even though I could trade it right now and get an iphone 7 4.7 inch with a KB that is about as wide as the 9900 and MIGHT aid in my typing frustration on VKB's but I won't hold my breath. I guess time will tell this fall, but I will be trading my iphone 5C if I do it. There likely will not be the ios 11 update for the 5C with 32 bit, but all the new 64 bit devices from the 5S and up should be ok.
It's funny how I do not want an iphone that cannot be updated but I have no problem keeping a Blackberry around that has had no OS updates for years! The only explanation I can think of has to be the design of the 9900, that amazing KB and the complete satisfaction of having a stress free typing experience.....
-sent from a beautiful Bold 9900
9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
Fs Laflamme For me the hole thing seems more about what you need to-do with your phone. If it's only to write SMS, answering push eamil and do calls... for those tasks: Bold 9900 was and could still very good but what could be a Bold 9901?
And for my point of of view: between BOLD 9900 and BOLD 9790, the 9790 was better.
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I had a 9790 for 4 months before it died. For some reason it would not accept the latest version of OS7.1 and kept jamming. It was smaller than the 9900, in fact it was more like an improved 9780. It was nice while it lasted but the extra width of the 9900 keyboard makes it nicer to type on than the 9790. Also the 9790 KB did not have the "clickiness" in the KB that becomes addictive to some of us. The 9790 also had a slower processor at 1Ghz and the 9900 is 1.2Ghz.
I would have loved to find an ultra-rare 9790 in white. I wonder if there are any on Amazon or ebay.
-sent from a beautiful Bold 9900
9900:Resurgence of popularity!
Originally Posted by
xanadome Yes, I am the one.
If in imore check my posts in the "The Jet Black Dilema" thread under iphone 7 Hardware section. I posted a bunch of pics of cases and stuff that I liked while at BestBuy today.
Also there is a guy here locally selling an unlocked 6S+ for $450, brand new but unfortunately in Rose Gold colour. Also the fact that who knows what happened to it and there would be no warrenty if something is bad on it, etc.
-sent from a beautiful Bold 9900